a rant

I've encountered some issues with the audio hobby, and if I were to list them out, they’d look like this:

1. Lack of Progress: The audio industry hasn't made significant advancements over the years, especially when compared to the rapid progress in the video industry.

On the contrary huge progress has been made in theoretical acoustics and applied acoustics...

The most important for audio immediate application being Dr. Edgar Choueiri... Read his articles...

Upgrade, overpricing and hearing limitations made no sense to me as problems to solve... It is very easy to solve them but we cannot  change our hearing ability we can train our hearing and you will be surprised what you will learn doing so...

The optimal way in audio is not upgrading loop but training our ears in a room...

Someone who understand how to hear dont pay for overprices gear...He is happy  with what he can do by himself.

Any amateur painter is proud of himself working without being jealous of Van Gogh pricing...

Thanks for the video...

Mahgister brought up Baach, and I will be spending a lot of time at Axpona with the folks from Theoretica and learning much more about the Baach systems. The ability (claims they can) to present most recorded music closer to how it is presented in a live performance, greatly intrigues me. Tom Martin from Absolute Sound recently made a written and Youtube review of the technology, and now I'm very curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxI6wf5TYTU

I am not sure that audio was a hobby for me.

If i think about it my goal was not buying and trying gear pieces but succeeding with low cost system to reach complete satisfaction about sound and understanding how to do it.

Acoustics dont change with gear pricing scale...

I succeeded after many years...

I had no hobby it seems anymore... ( i changed 2 pieces of gear this month but it was necessary not an hobbyist action)

I am interested anyway by reading about audio and acoustics...I will call it one of my hobby anyway...

I listen music...

To stay in the mood of this thread , i suffered very badly without speakers for a month...

But take it with a grain of salt...

For me the hobby was neither a mountain of the highest S.Q. to reach at all cost,

neither a Kaleidoscope of upgrades to felt a change because i am not satisfied or i am deluded by new purchase propositions,

for me this hobby was a road to learn how to install what i can afford...

Acoustics learning was the key, experiments and concepts...

Add to this vibration controls and resonance controls in my headphones and gear pieces,

Controls of my house/room electrical noise floor and EMI,

Tweakings with different methods with my homemade experiments ( no purchase of tweaks)

It was a journey on a road towards the threshold of minimal acoustical satisfaction or TMAS, extraccting the most of their potential from my 3 different speakers/rooms and from my headphones...

TMAS is important concept. It means that when you reach this minimum threshold you feel it so well that you had the impression to touch the acoustic goal. There is always more to extract but we must stop somewhere... The only way for me now to go further is buying Dr. Choueri BACCH implementation .

It is done...

My hobby is reading and music...

I learned a lot not from reviewers but with my intense discussions with three audio engineers here (objectivist) by realizing that they underestimated acoustics & psycho-acoustics and over valuated the material technology they used ... Thanks to them i conducted intense research and experiments... One is well know it is Amir...If it was not for his rant i will not had learn so much even in theoretical acoustics, which is the field i am the most interested in ...